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On August 16, 1917, Senator James K. Vardaman of Mississippi spoke of his fear of black veterans returning to the South, as he viewed that it would "inevitably lead to disaster." [6] To the American South, the use of black soldiers in the military was a threat, not a virtue. "Impress the negro with the fact that he is defending the flag ...
The Restoration of Pre-War Practices Act 1919 was a British Act of Parliament passed on 15 August 1919, which gave soldiers returning from World War I their pre-war jobs back. [ 1 ] The Restoration of Pre-War Practices (No. 3) Bill (UK) had its second reading in Parliament on 2 June 1919. [ 2 ]
[15] [16] The latter asserted that "No negro has been lynched in this county because he refused to take off his soldier uniform" and that Little was still alive and employed on a farm. On May 24, the editor of the News , W. W. Fleming, wrote a letter to the New York Sun , again denying the lynching had occurred, and objecting to a letter run by ...
At age 19, answering the call for soldiers after Fort Sumter was attacked in 1861, he enlisted in the Massachusetts Infantry, "unaware of what was to come," as Ryan writes in a brief summary.
The Bonus Army was a group of 43,000 demonstrators – 17,000 veterans of U.S. involvement in World War I, their families, and affiliated groups – who gathered in Washington, D.C., in mid-1932 to demand early cash redemption of their service bonus certificates.
Base Hospital No. 20, located in Châtel-Guyon, France, was one of the hundreds of Base Hospitals created to treat soldiers wounded during the First World War. It was created in 1916 by the University of Pennsylvania and served the American Expeditionary Forces (A.E.F.) until 1919.
The Territorial Force Nursing Service (TFNS) was established by Richard Haldane (Secretary of State for War) as part of the Army Medical Service of the newly established Territorial Force, created by his reform of auxiliary forces in the United Kingdom (UK) [1] The service was inaugurated in July 1908, and its first Matron-in-Chief was Sidney Browne, who had previously held this position in ...
The trouble was from the soldiers returning from the town, and rousing their campmates to return to the station to demand the release of their comrades. [29] Between 300 and 800 soldiers made their way to the police station, [ 30 ] [ 31 ] despite attempts by the senior Canadian officer—Major James Ross—and Regimental Sergeant Major (RSM ...